Saturday, August 15, 2009

In Real Life

Mummy, Where Do Classic Video Games Come From?

3:30PM August 15, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

After crying to heavens about the lack of an English-language version of classy French gaming mag Amusement, editor Abdel Bounane was kind enough to point us towards this gallery from the latest issue. No need for translation with these! More »

Red Steel 2 GamesCom Video

3:00PM August 15, 2009 | Brian Crecente

We knew Ubisoft’s Red Steel 2 was going to be playable at GamesCom, and this teaser trailer doesn’t tell us much more than that. More »

News

All Weekend, Valve’s Games Will Be Crazy Cheap

2:30PM August 15, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Valve are saying “to hell with third party Steam sales” this weekend, as their digital download store plays host to an in-house firesale, with Half-Life, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress products all going for a song. More »

News

July’s Top-Selling PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade Games

1:30PM August 15, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

There are sales charts for the US, sales charts for Japan, even sales charts for Britain, Australia and the PC, so why not for downloadable games on consoles? Why not indeed. So let’s take a look. More »

Brink Impressions: It All Makes Sense Now

1:00PM August 15, 2009 | Stephen Totilo

Splash Damage’s 2010 squad-shooter Brink wowed our Luke Plunkett at E3. Here at QuakeCon, a public demo of the game wowed several hundred more people. The game defies easy classification. It’s ambitious. More »

News

Bethesda Have “No Plans” For More Elder Scrolls

12:20PM August 15, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

On this week’s instalment of No Plans Watch: Bethesda’s Todd Howard, speaking at QuakeCon 09 on the future of the Elder Scrolls series now that his company is officially done with Fallout 3. More »

In Real Life

No Modern Warfare 2 Box Is Big Enough For This One

11:40AM August 15, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Life-sized Modern Warfare 2 ‘Ghost’ prototype, as seen on fourzerotwo’s Twitter.

In Real Life

A Blog For The Ladies…Who Date Gamers

11:20AM August 15, 2009 | AJ Glasser

A former co-worker of mine started a blog for girlfriends of gamers. I’m hoping she’ll expand the scope—but for now, I get to be both her target audience and her audience’s target. More »

In Real Life

Madden Launch: It Happens Every Year

11:00AM August 15, 2009 | Owen Good

Last night the Springfield, Oregon, Game Crazy treated about a dozen people to tailgate food and a Madden tournament. Despite the hype, the launch memories many of them shared had little to do with the highest-selling franchise of all time. More »

In Real Life

Eternal Sonata Manga Looks…Different

10:40AM August 15, 2009 | AJ Glasser

I just now got around to reading the manga adaptation of Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume (a.k.a. Eternal Sonata) by Kuroi Mimei and I’ve got to say—I’m a little weirded out. More »